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    Jacob Caldwell, chief executive officer of Kenai Aviation, stands at the Kenai Aviation desk at the Kenai Municipal Airport on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Kenai Aviation selected to provide air service to...
    By Jacob Dye • April 1, 2025 1:30 am

    Scheduled flights between Seward and Anchorage will begin May 1.

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    Sockeye salmon are gathered together at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Days expanded for commercial dipnet fishery
    By Jacob Dye • March 31, 2025 10:30 am

    The fishery will be allowed to operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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    The ORPC proposed American Tidal Energy Project site is located at East Forland, Cook Inlet, just north of Nikiski, Alaska. Photo provided by ORPC
    Marine energy developer pursues Cook Inlet tidal project
    By Delcenia Cosman • March 31, 2025 8:30 am

    ORPC recently filed a draft pilot license application for a tidal energy project site near Nikiski.

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    A draft of three budget scenarios that would implement deep cuts is considered during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Board of Education in Homer, Alaska, on Monday, March 3, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Additional cuts added to KPBSD budget reduction scenarios...
    By Jacob Dye • March 28, 2025 12:30 pm

    The school district faces a $17 million deficit.

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    Natural gas processing equipment is seen at Furie Operating Alaska’s central processing facility in Nikiski, Alaska, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Glenfarne takes majority stake of Alaska LNG Project,...
    By Jacob Dye • March 28, 2025 1:30 am

    The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation announced Thursday they had reached an agreement with the New York-based company.

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    The entrance to the Homer Electric Association office is seen here in Kenai, Alaska on May 7, 2020. (Peninsula Clarion file)
    HEA announces rate increase effective April 1
    By Jacob Dye • March 28, 2025 1:30 am

    The Regulatory Commission of Alaska on March 20 approved a request to increase their rates.

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    Students smile from atop a mountain peak while engaged in KMTA’s Pathfinders program. The program fosters environmental literacy and lifelong learning using an experiential, inquiry-based teaching model and helps expose students to the rich histories, environments and recreation opportunities available in the KMTA. (Photo courtesy of KMTA)
    Kenai Peninsula heritage area faces uncertain future
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • March 27, 2025 2:30 am

    A national heritage area that provides education and resources to the Kenai Peninsula is among the local organizations feeling the…

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    The summit crater of snowy Mount Spurr is seen on Aug. 27, 2020, from the air. (Photo courtesy of Cyrus Read/Alaska Volcano Observatory-U.S. Geological Survey)
    Spurr in spotlight as volcano shows signs of...
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News and Jake Dye Peninsula Clarion • March 27, 2025 2:30 am

    The volcano has erupted twice before, in 1992 and 1953.

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District logo. Photo courtesy of Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
    School board says no cuts to Homer Flex
    By Delcenia Cosman • March 27, 2025 1:30 am

    The KPBSD Finance Committee on Tuesday recommended not making reductions to or closing Homer Flex High School at this time.

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    A researcher points out fragments of elodea found in the upper stretches of Crescent Creek caught on tree branches and down logs. (Emily Heale/Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association)
    Local conservation district feels impacts of federal funding...
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • March 20, 2025 2:30 am

    Moves by the Trump administration earlier this year to freeze federal grants, loans and aid and to slash workers across…

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    City of Homer Special Projects and Communications Coordinator Jenny Carroll points to a posterboard of one of the proposed harbor alternatives while talking with community members during the Homer Harbor Expansion public meeting on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at Kachemak Bay Campus. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)
    Homer Harbor expansion project shares updates on $4.2...
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • March 20, 2025 2:30 am

    The purpose of the meeting was to share updates on the feasibility study and garner public comments.

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    Rika Mouw testifies in opposition to an ordinance that would have rezoned a wetlands parcel during the Homer City Council meeting on Monday, March 10, 2025, in the Homer City Hall Cowles Council Chambers in Homer, Alaska. Screenshot.
    Council shuts down wetlands rezone
    By Delcenia Cosman • March 20, 2025 1:30 am

    The community opposed Ordinance 25-27, which would have rezoned a rural residential parcel to the East End Mixed Use district.

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    U.S. Coast Guard officer Alexander Curran shows Homer visitors the bow of the USCG cutter Naushon on Aug. 4, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News.)
    USCG cutter Naushon to be decommissioned  
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • March 12, 2025 9:30 am

    A ceremony honoring the soon-to-be retired ship will be held on Friday, March 21 on the Homer Spit.

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